Our "risk-mgmt" course recommends a lab test log. This is a log kept on every patient of lab tests ordered, and allows you to verify that they came in and that all tests requested were returned.
How does everyone else handle this. What I'd like to see in AC is a log kept, maybe generated from the "orders" section assuming you put lab orders there. Or some formal lab test section in the patient's chart. Then, when the labs come in electronically, a the md could pull up a list showing patient labs ordered & received. Currently, all the labs go to the doctor, which is great. But sometimes a lab doesnt get imported and AC doesnnt flag it. Or suppose a lab just doesnt come back? Both have happened to us and we have caught it, but it woujld be nice if the system had a way for this to be tracked automatically and an alert given if labs supposedly orederd were not received after some specified time--say 10 days.
